ABSTRACT

According to the National Food Policy of Bangladesh, the urban slum dwellers are the most vulnerable group to ensure food security. Their condition has not been materially improved over three decades. In our study, we present the current food insecurity scenario in the slums of Dhaka city using the most recent ‘Bangladesh – Urban Informal Settlements Baseline Survey’ dataset of the World Bank. Afterwards, we analyse the determinants of the household food calorie gap by applying the Inverse Hyperbolic Sine transformed Double Hurdle model. The determinants are organised to represent the three pillars of food security (food availability, access, and utilisation) and all three pillars have emerged as significant factors in determining the food calorie gap. From our empirical results, we highlight some vital gaps in the National Food Policy and recommend broad areas of interventions for the betterment of the food security status among the slum dwellers of Dhaka.

摘要

根据孟加拉国的国家粮食政策，城市贫民窟居民是确保粮食安全的最弱势群体。三十年来，他们的状况并未得到实质性改善。在我们的研究中，我们使用世界银行最新的“孟加拉国 - 城市非正式住区基线调查”数据集展示了达卡市贫民窟当前的粮食不安全状况。然后，我们通过应用反双曲正弦变换的双障碍模型来分析家庭食物卡路里差距的决定因素。这些决定因素被组织起来以代表粮食安全的三大支柱（粮食供应、获取和利用），并且所有三个支柱都已成为决定食物热量差距的重要因素。从我们的实证结果来看，